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I had never heard of Ben Fogle though I knew of both his wife and son. I was surprised to find...
Inside this beautiful cover Sarah Franklin effortlessly introduces her setting and characters in...
A warm-toned cover with a rather ominous title. This novel could go in any direction but the...
The cover is beautifully atmospheric and promises romance in a dramatic setting. This looks like...
What a cheeky premise and a clever cover! The tone is great for an admirer of the Queen of...
This looks hilarious! And the cover leads straight into that expectation. I like the dry humour...
A pretty and busy cover promises a cheerful story. I love the assurance that Cathy Lake writes...
Brrr! Stunning cover, stunning concept and a stunning opening! I can barely put words together...
Oh yes! This story is engaging and beautifully expressed. I fell straight into it although I am...
Cecilia Ahern commands attention. The pretty cover conceals powerful writing, strong emotions, an...
The start is presented in a dauntingly complex manner but I imagine most readers will skip the...
This opening put me back into Jane Austen's world without laboriously aping her style. It is...
What a striking and ingenious cover! This promises to be a great read. There's a real atmosphere...
There's a great use of colour on the cover and it offers conflicting ideas of age, respect,...
A strong independent woman and a charming pirate in revolutionary France looks like a great mix....
A brisk no-nonsense start to this novel promises clarity. Who knows whether this crisp (almost...
What a powerful start! I forgot I was reading a sample and was quite upset when there was nothing...
Exciting, creepy, dangerous, intriguing, magic! There's a whole other world waiting to be...
A new novel from Caroline Bond? Of course I want to read it. The cover is very attractive with...
The blank verse style is rather overwhelming at first but I settled into it. It made me slow down...
This is going to be a fascinating look at a different culture with its set of values,...
The first paragraph expertly gives the setting and the first scene introduces the main characters...
Great snippets of people's lives begin this story - such a variety and each one very real. I knew...
Jean Fullerton hits her stride immediately and takes us to wartime London. It's very real, right...
Right from the start there are word pictures of the scenes, the settings. Within minutes I'd...
Languorous befuddlement in colourful dreams was like slipping into a deep pool. This fairy tale...
Maybe just a little too self-consciously up-to-the-minute and hashtaggy for me. What about all...
A scene of death, of crime, is the opening. And yet I Iaughed out loud within a few pages. That...
After a beginning like that I need to know what happened all those years ago. And what will...
I really don't think I can read this book because just the first few pages have plunged me into a...
This opening of the novel didn't really impress me. I couldn't smpathise with any of the...
I think I'll love this book. But I will have to slow down my reading to let the words have their...
The cover is not to my taste but I can see it matches the earlier volumes in the series. I hadn't...
I was surprised how much I enjoyed the beginning of this book. A first-hand account of a child...
This looks like a story to get immersed in. The main character is likable and that, to me, is...
The various scenes come alive as Elisabeth Gifford writes so well. The beautiful cover hints at...
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